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This portal is to open public enhancement requests against the products and services belonging to IBM Sustainability Software. To view all of your ideas submitted to IBM, create and manage groups of Ideas, or create an idea explicitly set to be either visible by all (public) or visible only to you and IBM (private), use the IBM Unified Ideas Portal (https://ideas.ibm.com).


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PINNED Enable inventory reservation automatic cron task for specific site
Advantage : Enable the cron for specific site which is necessary. Summary: In Maximo, we have more than 50 Active sites. When we try to enable inventory reservation automatic cron task for specific site, There is no Cron Parameters are available....

IBM MAS - Manage (Base)

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Ability configure Rich Text Box Control

Unlike other controls within the Maximo Application Designer, the Rich Text Box Control does not allow any configuration of its properties i.e default font, default font size, width etc.
over 5 years ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) 2 Not under consideration

Speeding Up Report List Loading Time

We have over 10,000 BIRT reports in our database and if someone has updated any of those or created a new adhoc report, then all those reports need to be reloaded in the screen report cache the next time someone goes to run a report on that JVM. T...
over 7 years ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) 2 Not under consideration

SQL Expression Builder should return a Classification that can be used when you query

Currently the Classification button returns a classification in hierarchical form the same as you get with the Hierarchy Path format 1 \ 104 \ 10401. This cannot be used for a query, which is the purpose of the SQL Expression Builder, it renders t...
over 2 years ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) / System Admin Config/Security 1 Is a defect

New input field to enter functional area when creating new forms under Manage Inspection Forms page in Maximo work Center

Anyone who uses Maximo Work Center - Conduct Inspection Page or Manage Inspection Forms Page can now see everyone's forms irrespective of their functional area/department. That is a lot of forms to sift through. There should be a way to identify "...
about 4 years ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) 1 Future consideration

Make a Crew Type Inactive so that it can no longer be used

A Crew Type is a template for a Crew. If you do not want the Crew Type to be used again you cannot make it inactive if there are existing crews, but there is nothing which is updated from the crew type to the crew, so why can't you make it inactiv...
over 1 year ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) / Asset/Work Management 0 Future consideration

Disassociate an asset from an asset template

We accidentally associated an existing asset with an asset template using the "Apply to Existing Assets" option in the Asset Templates application in Maximo. It would be useful to be able to disassociate the asset from the asset template in front-...
over 3 years ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) 2 Not under consideration

Email Listener application : Emails Automatic deletion

We would like to be able to automatically delete emails for addresses with an IMAP protocol using Email Listener application
almost 5 years ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) 0 Future consideration

Improvement: Bar Charts on Start centre to Drill on Bar and Open Results in Application

On Start Centres when you go to a Portlet. You can change your view to “Set Chart Options” So for example. On the Team Work Tab. Go to “Work Scheduled and Assigned” and Go to “Set Chart Options” And Display the Chart. This then gives you a bar Cha...
over 1 year ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) 1 Future consideration

Remove Non-breaking spaces from Excel downloads for true accuracy

Whenever the download to Excel option is used in Maximo the resulting Excel files contains NON-BREAKING SPACE(U+00A0) instead of the value in the database which is SPACE(U+0020). This means that the values in Excel are not accurate and cause probl...
over 1 year ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) / Asset/Work Management 1 Not under consideration

Dynamic Job Plans should allow to enter job plan duration that is less than 1 minute.

There are some inspections that last only few seconds but overall it takes minutes to complete them all because there is hundreds of them in a batch. If they get one minute each then total time is much longer than real inspection time. For example...
over 1 year ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) / Asset/Work Management 1 Not under consideration